La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs

The Triangle Bailliage of North Carolina

Is Immensely Elated

To Be Offering the Breathlessly Awaited:

A Summer Night of Reverence

For Southern Decadence

At The Angus Barn in Raleigh

On Sunday, June 13, 2004

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On the firefly-lit veranda bemused and enthused by the suffused fumes of jasmine-magnolia:

PIMENTO CHEESE WITH EFFIE’S CHEESE ROUNDS

PULLED PORK RILLETTES WITH TOAST OF CORNBREAD

BETSY’S PICKLED SHRIMP

2004 Mint Juleps, Lynchburg Lemonades, and Orange Blossoms

To usher in the long hot summer:

Soft Shell Crab with Heirloom Tomatoes

The fastidiously fashioned and fashionable soft shelled bottom dwellers have been conjugally alit upon a mattress-like magical matrix that transcends triviality to foster the conviviality of the venerable ancestral tomatoes with eligible pine nuts, highly distinguished fennel, outspoken lemon, and a coy brown butter caper vinaigrette. Chives, Smithfield ham, and Cornucopia goat cheese join in the epicurean polygamy to induce an eclectic variety of culinary piety.

2003 Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand

Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high:

PAN ROASTED BLACK GROUPER WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE

The delicate intricate poisson has been forged in its fascinating façon through tender loving pan roasting. The super duper grouper cavorts with the un-neglected eclectic metric of Johnson County sausage (formed of pork and dried cherries), the above engaging in attractive interactive unwavering flavoring deriving from sweet water clams, mussels, and a spicy tomato sauce rendered tasteful, tasty, and pasty to greet Carolina smoked bacon, Vidalias, and virgin diehard red chard.

2002 Hugel “Gentil” Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Salvaner – Alsace

A southern comfort zone:

COLD CATAWBA MELON SOUP

This melon mélange is supposed to be composed of unopposed profusely nosed watermelon, sequestered mint thyme, discreet Texas Pete, a cream theme, clever clover honey, lemon, Frangelica plus Redneck cognac (i.e., Genuine Moonshine).

2002 RayLen Vineyards Viognier, Yadkin Valley, North Carolina

The oft imitated-never duplicated triangle bailliage vertical intermezzo:

BLACKBERRY AND DANDELION SHERBET

From beneath a hot tin roof:

ROULADE OF BEEF TENDERLOIN STUFFED WITH LOBSTER

The beef like a thief enfolds and embraces the mobster lobster as they steal the gastronomic show in cahoots with some bellicose sea beans that have been assertively scented with trouble-free truffle oil, all in harmonious dissonance with some uncanny candy cane beets with B-red potatoes, all immersed in a well nursed brazenly unrehearsed yet well versed merlot reduction.

2000 Clos Saint-Julien “Grand Cru,” Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux

Borne With The Wind:

FRIED GREEN TOMATO SALAD

Late spring mean green tomatoes have been recruited to team up with Clemson true Blue Cheese, largely marginalized caramelized unmistaken bacon, barely visible micro greens, Roma diploma tomatoes, and 55 year-old assertive acerbic Balsamic vinegar.

2000 Jean-Marc Morey “La Comme Dessus”, Santenay, Burgundy, France

Looking homeward angelically:

WILD HUCKLEBERRY SHORTCAKE

Macerated under-rated white peaches fortify (to the extent that they can effectively do so) this château of a gateau, as they pose poetically to celebrate a proud shroud of chic peach ice cream gratuitously aggrandized with evocatively smug peach schnapps brandy – these epicurean epistles finished with a varnish of mint garnish.

2002 Quady “Elysium” Black Muscat Dessert Wine, California